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The politics of writing in Iran : a history of modern Persian literature

This study emphasizes the pattern of literary change in Iran, as it focuses on the relationship between the constructive elements of literary creativity, literary movement, ideology, and metaphorical language of modern Persian authors.Read more...

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1996.

Description:

xi, 250 pages ; 24 cm

Contents:

Introduction: episodic literary movement--a model for understanding literary history --
Persianism: the ideology of literary revolution in the early twentieth century --
Revolutionary literature: the committed literary movement in the decades before the 1979 revolution --
Revolution and literature: the rise of the Islamic literary movement after the 1979 revolution --
Feminist discourse in postrevolutionary women's literature --
Conclusion: applicability of episodic literary movement in Arabic and Turkish literature.